Exercise and Diet Tips: How to stay in shape while travelling

No matter how great a vacation is, after a couple of weeks of no exercise and over-eating, a lot of travelers just can't wait to get back into the gym and restore balance to their bodies. With that, frequent travelers shared their several training and dietary strategies to minimally maintain your physique while traveling, or even continue making progress as usual.

When traveling, the biggest dietary problem is regulating the caloric intake every day. Traveling usually coincides with eating a lot, and restaurant food almost always comes with way more calories because of their contents like butter, oils, sugar, and other sources of hidden calories.

The large daily surplus of calories plus reduced exercise is a particularly bad combination for the physiques. It can also be a challenge to keep tabs on where the calories are coming from in terms of protein, carbohydrates, and fats.

Protein is your staple nutrient for maintaining a person's muscle, so one has to make sure getting enough protein every day. A good rule of thumb that most often times applies is to shoot for getting about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight every day.

But the easiest and fastest way to keep track of your intake is a diet app called MyFitnessPal, which will allow busy people to research and track the nutrition data of the food they are eating or thinking about eating throughout the day. This takes the guesswork out and helps them make better choices about what they're eating.

According to Muscle For Life, another style of dieting, getting popular is known as "flexible dieting". It is allegedly very useful when people are traveling. It allows them to keep their daily food intake under control without having the schedule revolve around eating times. However, if they are afraid that reducing meal frequency will impair their metabolism or cause weight gain, it won't.

On the other hand, when getting workouts while on the road is considered by many people easier than some people think. They even provided several workable options like staying in a hotel near a local gym or even using the hotel gym so they could still stay fit while travelling. They can also work out in their hotel room.

In addition, they could do a workout before a meal if possible. As claimed by NCBI, the reason why training before a meal helps us stay on track is it depletes our body's glycogen stores. When this occurs, the body is primed to replenish these stores, and it uses carbohydrate you eat to do this. A person's body will not store carbohydrate as fat until glycogen levels are replenished.

So, as mentioned, staying on track while traveling isn't nearly as hopeless as many people think. Through using these strategies, a lot of people really found out that on vacations for as long as 3 weeks and even a month, they could enjoy large meals every day, and came back at exactly the same weight and conditioning as when they left.